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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1975-04-10, Page 4ADVAIICE-TIMES The age of excesses Quite the hottest news in a cold and stormy ifgreVia, at least for the t.r.px.r.e-z nf Pgrth County, must have been the announcement ° that their board of education was about to hire a professional negotiator. That Is, a man who was reputed to have special abilities in the area of labor-management relations . . . at a salary of $600 per day while he would be on the lob. The poor people of Perth probably had to reach, as we did, for their Handy Dandy Pocket Calculators to confirm their mental arithmetic—which puts this specialist's earnings at a staggering $180,000 per year if he managed to get 300 days' employment in that space of time. To further the bewilderment of the Perth County ratepayers was the declaration by several school teachers and some members ,,,"‘\k\N\s*TAWNNAUNNN:\,‘,„%\;.„..%•...Ma."..:\\,11Wpa,W1W414%, of the board that they saw no reason to hire any sort of a negotiator, even if he was will- ing to work for the tun ot me thing. Disic.,u-6- sions between teachers and board, they con- tended, were going along quite smoothly. What kind of cockeyed age are we living in, anyway? It seems that anybody who has the nerve to pin the title "specialist" or "consultant" onto his name can find suckers to feed his ego and fatten his bank account. is it any living wonder that the average guy on the street is growing ever more reluctant to turn over the reins of massive fax revenue to a small group of individuals who may or may not have the plain common sense to di- lute power with wisdom? Municipal school boards and town coun, cils may have made errors of judgment, but at least they didn't have the funds to make them on such a gigantic scale as this. Plan worth investigating Out of the countless arguments and dis- cussions on the question of oil supplies and the increase in prices, the suggestion of Premier Allan Blakeney .of Saskatchewan seems well worth careful consideration. With another federal -provincial confer- ence on Canadian oil supplies in the spring, Blakeney proposes that the most reasonable, solution lies in a plan under which neither the oil companies nor any federal or -provin- cial government should be enriched by es- calating oil prices. He would like to see these "windfall" profits accumulated in a fund for the continuing exploration and development needed to bring in new oil sources—to pro- vide for the future needs of the entire nation. Somehow Mr. Blakeney sounds more like a real Canadian than either the premier of Alberta or the federal resources minister. His proposal brings to centre stage the press- ing question of the real meaning of Canadian nationhood. Canada, more than 100 years ago, became a large nation because the inhabitants of its several and far-flung. parts agreed that united they would stand a better chance to survive in a developing world. Strangely enough, the young nation sur- vived the strains of transportation short- ages, of bitter depression years, of two world wars. It has required only two decades of relative prosperity to weaken the stitches of nationalunity. Faced with a new:found chance at undreamed-of oil profits, Alberta would like, to charge fellow -Canadians top a price for the products of its oil wells. Does Alberta have any sort of obligation to share its good fortune at reasonable cost? Of course it does. Has Ontario soaked the hide off Alberta for nickel and copper sup- plies, most of which come from our prov- ince? Has Quebec held its asbestos for a king's ransom? Have British Columbia and the Maritimes charged $10 a pound for fish? And have you heard much complaining in greedy old Ontario because a good percent- age of our wealth has been funnelled off an- nually to narrow the disparity with the poorer provinces? If each province has the right to hoard or to enrich itself at the expense of the other nine, the whole concept of national unity is folly. Similarly it is pointless to have prov- inces at all. Leduc, Alberta, might with equal justice claim that it should soak the residents of Edmonton an Arab's fee for oil because the stuff comes from their particu- lar piece of ground. Everybody knows the stories of the old- time robber barons who, because they had the power, grabbed everything they could get. Their counterparts were found in the early years ofthis century when the common man's cash could be extracted in huge bun- dles by the great money,barons of the invest- ment world. In, our day and age things have changed little—it is simply a matter of more people getting into the act. A page of editorial opinion 4*4" NIPIPPIk Thursday April0 • - Very little has changed The new president of the United States came to power a few months ago with an un- equalled opportunity to lead a troubled people into a new era of honesty and hope after a very bleak period of American his- tory. As the months go by it becomes ever more apparent that his thinking is remark- ably parallel to that of former President Richard Nixon. At a press conference iR San Diego last week, Ford suggested that with the co-operation of the American Congress South Vietnam could still be saved from communist domination. Th d American president has thus be- trayed an abysmal ignorance of military reality, as well as an equally stupendous lack of knowledge about the attitudes of his Sooner the better The Province of Ontario is, at long last, considering legislation under which mobile homes may be recognized as human habita- tions and their occupants as human beings.. The legislation would tet up standards for such homes, so that they would, hopefully, not become collections of gypsy caravans, as so many municipal councillors have always consider'ed them. There may have been justification 20 or 30 years ago for discouraging or even forbid- ding the establishment of trailer parks in a community, but those reasons have long since disappeared. The only thing wrong with trailer parks has been the fact that they were not controlled by either municipal or provincial regulations and so were subject to the varying and often stupid rules set out by owners of trailer parks themselves. Any legislator who is still unaware of the fact that most young couples simply cannot earn enough money to purchase a perma- nent home should resign his office. For many young people a mobile home which contains own. countrymen. South Vietnam has been doomed to fall under communist control for the past 15 years. American aid and Ameri- can lives have done nothing but prolong the agony. Cambodia will inevitably suffer the same fate. The suffering of the Vietnamese people is undeniable—but it is a tragedy which is being dragged on week affer week as the puppet leader of that nation hangs on like grim death to a position which became un- 4enable long ago. If President Ford is so dis- tressed about the suffering in Southeast Asia he should be bending every effort to clear away every obstacle which lies in the way of negotiations to end the fighting. Instead he expresses the desire to remount the full scale of military disaster. ' HELEN ALLEN HONOURED—Jim Forster, re-elected this weekend as president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, holds- a special citation presented to Helen Allen, weekly author of Today's Child in 22 daily and 155 weekly newspapers across Canada. Watching at the right are Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Griffin of Kitchener, whose daughter, 19 -year-old Patricia, will receive a $700 scholarship in Helen Allen's name to attend a community heating system, appliances and furniture is the only alternative to a tiny apartment with no outdoor play space foe their children. Even federally- and provincially -assisted home ownership plans are frequently beyond the reach of young couples, particularly if there is a reason why the wife cannot bring in wages. college registered nursing assistant's course next fall. Patricia, adopted by the Griffin family after her picture appeared in Helen Allen's column in November, 1972, is seen in the picture behind the group. Said President For- ster, who noted that more than 7,000 young people have been adopted through Today's Child, "On behalf of those young people, it is about time the secondary school teaching pro- fession said thank you." tt ews Items from Old Files APRIL 1928 Roy McLeod, •a former em- ployee of the Advance -Times, is now employed on the - Lindsay completed by the Utilities Com- Corrigan and Mrs. Carl Johnston. mission at the hospital. Over The Ladies' Curling Club ended each- door there is a light that its activities for the season when works from a button at each bed- a banquet was held at the Bruns - Post. side. When this light comes,on, it , wick Hotel. Election of officers Harvey Nivins has ' purchased 4 signals -by a buzzer on each pf the t for the next Season was held with the Rutherford property near the iethree floor , also showing the 4Mrs. R. S.- Hetheringtqn rAmerl Western Foundry. „ . floor number m which the call president. Mrs. A. W. Irwin was It may be noted that Scottish was made on the panel on each elected vice-president and Mrs. settlements are not loudly pro- floor. R. R. Hobden is secretary-treas- testing against the quality of J. L. McEwen of Turnberry urer. The president-elect paid larger nickels in circulation. Pos- was named a director of the tribute to the retiring president, sibly they get more for their 'Perth -Huron Shorthorn Breed- Mrs. W. W. Gurney. money this way. ers' Association at the annual Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Dun - W. A. Miller and J. H. McKaY, meeting at Clinton. bar, Belgrave, announce the en - who recently disposed of their Elgin Coutts and Ralph Baird gagement of their, daughter, businesses in town, have joined in of town and Jack Wettlaufer of Lorna Jean, Reg. N., to Norman a wholesale cigar and confection- Bluevale left for Galt to take a Cook, son of Mr. and Mrs. George ery business, and purpose serv- course in the Youth Air Training Cook, Belgrave. The wedding will A lot of sport -loving boys and The Ladies' Auxiliaries to the John Hanna, M.L.A. for Huron- mening this district from Wingham.' Service. take place in April. are mightily impressed with Legion throughout Ontario are Bruce, was -a guest at the recep- the necessity of having a real purchasing an ambulance which tion held in Toronto for the Presi- sport in town this year and, from will be presented to the govern- dent of France; M. Vincent a close canvass, are of the opin- ment for use during the war. Auriol, and Madame Auriol: ion that lacrosse is due for a re- The most talked -of picture in One of the most interesting top - turn. An organizational meeting years, if not of all time, "Gone ics under discussion at the meet - ..will be held this evening. . With the Wind", will be presented ing of Town Council was that con - On Tuesday morning a fire at the local theatre in May. It cerning the work to be done on broke out in the rear of C. stars Vivien Leigh and Clark Wingham streets this year. Sev- Templeman's dry cleaning she') Gable. eral of the thoroughfares will be on Victoria Street, that com- Rhys Pollock has been making hard topped, including Carling pletely wrecked the interior of extensive improvements in his Terrace in the Hillcrest area, the building. Mr. Templeman re- store in Whitechurch. He is now Victoria Street from the end of ceived severe burns to the face treating it to a brand new coat of the present pavement to Carling and will be confined to the house paint which adds charm to its ap- Terrace and a few other streets. fora few days. He expects soon to pearance. Three young -pupil§, Marion be in his newuarters, the store „ 0 —0 — 0 Scott, Curtis Dawson and Eugene occupied by J. Thomas, shoe re- APRIL 1951 MacMillan, started last week to pairer, Josephine Street North. A new Wurlitzer electronic SS No. 9, Kinloss. James Hyndman has sold his organ has been installed in the Mrs. Vern Denny was elected Gorrie area farm and it is rumor- United Church at Bluevale. Dedi- president of the Wroxeter Wo - ed that he and his family will cation services will be held next men's Institute. Other officers move to Kitchener. , Sunday when an ()man and piano are Mrs. John Lane, Mrs. Wesley ' left for Detroit where he hasse- James England of Rapid City recital will be given by Mrs. Mex Newton, Mrs. Timm, What, we have wondered in this column for the past ten years, is so filthy bad about a well -made trailer or the people who choose to live in one? Is there any sound reason to believe that trailer occupants are fly-by- night crooks who will rook all.the local mer- chants and disappear into the wild blue yon- der? The continuing opposition to trailer parks is, perhaps, an indication that all too many of the people who make the rules are personally comfortably well off and have no real understanding of the problems of a new generation of Canadians facing life's resm- sibilities under very trying circumstances. THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at wingnam, Comer ;.1, Barry Wenger, President Robert 0. Wenger, Secretary -Treasurer Member Audit Bureau of Circulations larti+agi Member — Canadian Community Newspapers Assoc. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Assoc. Subscription S10 00 per year Six months $5.25 Second Class Mail Registration No. 0821 To United States $12.50 Return postage guaranteed cured a position for the summer. Mr. Layton, who recently pur- chased James Cutt's grocery builhess in Blyth, will take pos- session this week. 0 — 0 — 0 APRIL 19-10 Murray Johnson was re-elected president of the Wingham Hockey Association at its annual meeting. Vice-presidents are W. T. Cruickshank and Dr. W. A. McKibbon; secretary is Murray R. Roberts and treasurer is Ross I. Harrison. The Maitland River here was as high or higher than it has been for some years. Between the first two bridges south of town on 'Highway 4, the water was flowing over the road three feet deep earlier this week. The flats were completely inundated. An estimated expenditure of some $2,000 on Village hydro lines, was approved by the Luck - now Council, the work to be in „i• Uorh rn m nhpll nf Wingham. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Edgar of Wingham wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, lJelen Ruth, to Lewis Stonehouse of Belgrave. The marriage will take place the middle of April. The installation of a modern signalling system has just been Harvey THE ONLY WAY TO GO . . . that is, If you wanted to go anywhere in last week's blizzard. Keith Nethery had the right idea when he came shopping into town on his snowmo- bile; after all, they were meant for the snow. Mrs.. Allen Munro, Mrs. Lyle Brothers and Mrs. George Lane. The building on the corner in Wroxeter, which has been leased by Andy Pocaluyko, has been sold. Mr. and Mrs. Pocauyko have conducted a garage, groc- ery store and lunch counter ser- vice in the village. Their friends hope they will remain in the com- munity. 4 coitt000ttomipprefmaa•oopoos0000 44 Ift Q.(24 esom000p000t/000010000'o0000000 RR 1, Porde. Apr115, 11975 Dear Editor, In regards to the news story "Howick East Wins Tr! County but can't get hands on Trophy", I would just like w say with regards to what Mr. Haines has e to say, as I understand the rules of Tri County, that you must play your league games first and not let tournaments Interfere. As far as the five o'clock game was con- cerned, it wouldn't have made much difference as I dare say any of them would go to bed before 7:30 in which case they could have if need be. And how do you know how many games 0 you're going to play in the tournament? Besides comparing them to the "Squirts" I believe they play more games than our "Tykes". Our new arena in Howick haS had a very busy season and cer- tain time was allotted each -week to certain teams, and when John Armstrong called back in five minutes, it was because he had to check on the ice time. • Yes, Mr. Haines, Harry Winkel does come from East Howick, but as far as having children playing on the team, you are falsely accusing him. He is a fine sport and has only one son who is still too young to even skate. I think if we are going to teach this cafiber of sportsmanship at this level then our example is very poor, and what can we expect of our boys? I realize that Howick has lost to Belgrave for so many years that it's unbelievable that it could be otherwise. In the years past, one had to be a good sport to play for Howick East or Fordwich as we were then known, because we very often came out on the short end of the stick. - East Howick Tykes were privi- leged over the last couple of years to have two young gentle- men in the persons of John Arm- strong and Jack Ruttan, who gave willingly of their time for weekly practise and games; they are sportsmen of the finest degree, so not only the boys were disappointed, but parents and * coaches feel it's a poor way to get atrophy. Anyseirwhere did the trophyi disappear totiThanics. • A concerned part, Harding • • 0 — 0 — 0 APRIL 1961 Wingham's newest business enterprise, a coin-operated laun- dry service, is expected to be ready for business later this -week. The laundry will be located in the building erected during the winter and owned by Mayor R. E. McKinney. It will be operated by a Kitchener firm. The local firm of C. Lloyd and Son has announced several changes. in the executive officers of the company. R. H. Lloyd be- comes chairman of the board. W. H. French assumes the post of president and C. W. Lloyd be- comes vice-president. D. C. Nas- mith will become general man- ager of the firm and James Hamilton has been named secre- tary -treasurer. The town council has received and accepted the resignation of J. W. Bushfield, Q.C., as town solicitor. _Mr. Bushfield is the newly -appointed crown attorney for the county of Huron. Town council has appointed' the Wing - ham law firm of Crawford and Hetherington as solicitors for the municipality. \ A meeting will be held this week sponsored by the local branch of the Cancer Society. At this meeting, members of the Goderich branch will present a wheel chair to the Wingham group. This will in turn be pre- sented to Mrs. I. Morrey for use at the cancer clinic at the Wing - ham Hospital. A highly successful Youth Con- ference was held on Friday at the United Church when 114 young people were registered. The teen- agers were from Huron, Perth and -Bruce COinities and rep- resented Listowel, S'eaforth, Ex- eter, Teeswater, Durham, Blyth, Harriston, Walkerton and Wing - ham . The expansion of telephone fa- cilities in Wingham during 1960 was typical of the situation across the territory served by the Bell Telephone Company of Can- ada. Wingham added 63 tele- phones, bringing the total num- ber in service here at year's end to 1,788. Mrs. G. W. Tiffin was returned as presitielliweu uavar.r.U,12 meeting- of Huron Presbyterial Women's Missionary Society was held in Wingham United Churcp. Mrs. J. E. Reavie of Wingham is recording secretary and Mrs. Gilbert Beecroft of RR 1, 13e1 - grave, is corresponding secre- tary. • Mrs. Elmer 0-0-0 Editor, The Wingham Advance -Times. Dear Sir: As one now looks back on our hockey season, one event stands out above the rest. That event was -the Wingham Midget Hockey Tournament. My club (Colling- wood Minor Midgets) entered the tournament as a standby \team. We are most happy we did. The tournament was first class from the very start. We have participated in tourna- ments in much larger centres but none have equalled yours. My club would like to thank • specifically the following people: Tournament Chairman Al Harri- son and co-workers Dr. J. K. Mc- Gregor and Dick LeVan for that personal touch to administration; Referee -in -chief Ed Daer for great officiating; Doug Neil during registration; Mrs. Jim Swan and Mrs. Walter Brown for good, wholesome food and Larry Taylor, Ed Deichert, Ted Ahara and the Lions Club of Wingham who proved something to me that I have always felt—"Small town people are real people in every way." Once again, thank you all and we hope to see you again next year. On behalf of the L.O.F. Minor Midgets, - Coach Terry Geddes Collingwood, Ontario. 9 No accidents in snow storm • It seems the bad weather last week brought at least one ref of sunshine with it for Wingham, as the Wingham Town Police re- ported •no motor vehicle acci- dents investigated for that time. Weather conditions may also be responsible for the absence of other serious incidents. The town police did report, however, on the investigation of damage to a car on the parking lot of Crawford Motors early Tuesday morning. Damage was traillikai.,c(11 .1,17,, youths have been charged in connection with the case. Police also received one complaint of wilful damage and one dis- turbanpe complaint and laid one charge each under the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act and the Liquor Control Act.